THE ARTWORK
Meraki is born involving the great Egyptian artist Medhat Shafik in the project, Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. The objects of Shafik’s installation “Palmira”, built from overlapping elements of jute, gauze and fabrics in natural and bright colors, are a metaphor of the stratification of history, of man’s damage to nature, but the reconstruction, after a traumatic event, turns into a “journey” for Shafik dreamlike, which draws its strength from the fragility of things in search of a symbolic recovery of archaeological sites and nature, which are memory of man and the essence of civilization.”
CHOREOGRAPHY AND MUSIC
Music and choreography were born in the rehearsal room overlapping simultaneously melodies, instruments and movements.
Just as the choreographic construction tends to a clear language and extremely clear trying to give the gesture a breadth and a fluidity growing, sounds and instruments, seemingly separate, come together to give life to the melody. Music fills the movement, dance fills the melody, the artwork fills the space thus creating an intertwining of apparently different languages but extremely close. The dancers never touch, they brush against each other. There is no prevalence of male or female presence but only a search for inner balance (represented in the choreography from two small solos) and awareness that the reconstruction passes only through a common path, as if it were a journey that allows you to increase knowledge and experience, as in Konstantinos Kafavis’s poem Ithaca, recited by the voice of Shafik itself during the performance.